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One of Wilson's closest colleagues, Kennedy School Professor of Public Policy Christopher Jencks, says, "The Truly Disadvantaged synthesized a whole range of different ideas into a really coherent story about why the inner-city had become such a terrible place to live."
"He's one of those people who has a terrible time saying 'no.' So he's terribly overcommitted" Jencks says. "Actually, he may say 'no' 80 percent of the time, and he's still terribly overcommitted."
The Kennedy School announced earlier this semester that Mansbridge's husband, Christopher Jencks, will join the faculty in the fall.
A Kennedy School spokesperson said that Wilson's recent appointment may have influenced Jencks, Newman and Borjas to also come here. The "critical mass" of Harvard academics who are active in social policy research just continues to build.
We hope Harvard's social policy powerhouse will be able to inject a more reasoned level of analysis into the national debate. The current discourse about social problems needs to become less based on myths and fears and more focused on the judicious research that scholars such as Jencks, Newman...